The Smoke Smelled Like My Past || Bubba & Stretch
Starter for @leathermasks
It still baffled Stretch how quickly the pavement could go from hot enough to fry an egg to freezing cold. It was summer, but the previous day's rain left the air humid, the winds weren't helping. It took Stretch five attempts to light a cigarette. She cursed herself for following her producer's "friendly advice" and wearing a dress to the place is the most recent news, retreating to the van and grabbing her jacket while the driver and cameraman got everything ready.
The police kept bringing body bag after body bag towards the spot where two unsuspecting —now traumatized— hitchhikers found what upon digging a little deeper turned out to be a potter's field of some kind on the side of the road. The wind changed, bringing the smell of the waterlogged bodies to where Stretch was standing, she took another long drag from her cigarette, trying and failing to stop her thoughts from wandering into the nightmare she'd lived a few years ago when she'd met the Sawyer's and almost didn't live to tell the tale.
Stretch snapped out of her thoughts when her cameraman snapped his fingers in front of her face, almost dropping her cigarette.
"We're ready to start," the cameraman, Dwight, nudged her towards where the camera was positioned at an angle where the police cars and the officers dressed in hazmat suits who were waist deep in the grave could be seen.
Nodding, Stretch stood in front of the camera, taking the mic and dropping her cigarette before stepping on it to turn it off. As the camera's light turned on, she smiled.
"Good evening, everyone, right now we're in the crime scene of what people are calling the massacre of the decade by the main route. Earlier today, two hitchhikers found what looked like human bones sticking out of the ground, upon further inspection, the police have found that it is a common grave with at least three unidentified bodies." Stretch tucked her hair behind her ear, softly moving so the camera would show yet another full body bag being dragged by two policemen towards their vehicle. "No suspects have been found yet, but police recommend that anyone planning to drive past our current location stick to the road and abstain from picking up any strangers. As for hitchhikers, they recommend travelling in groups and being careful of who's car you get into," she continued. "This is Stretch Brock wishing you a good night and asking you all to stay safe."